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I invited some friends the other night for dinner. Since one of my friend’s birthday always falls on the second night of Passover, I wanted to make a special dessert to celebrate it. Now this holiday has a lot of food restrictions (basically no gluten), so I looked around at the ingredients I had at hand and came up with this super easy and super yummy dessert. Its so simple to make that you will be like, that’s all? Well, yep! and guess what? That’s what you’ll love about it…aside from the fact that its yummy & sugar free & gluten free!

Ingredients

18 pitted dates

1/2 cup almonds (plus extra for sprinkling)

2 tbsp. coconut flakes (plus extra for sprinkling)

1 tbsp cottonseed oil (you can use coconut oil if you have at hand)

3 bananas

2 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tbsp honey

2 tbsp almond milk

Directions

In a food processor blend the dates, almonds, coconut flakes and cottonseed oil until the mixture becomes a ball. Spread this mixture evenly with your fingers in an 8 inch pie mold, to create the crust of the pie. Put in the freezer for 15 minutes.

Now put in the food processor the 3 bananas, cocoa powder, honey and almond milk and blend until smooth. Pour this mix on top of the pie crust and sprinkle with chopped almonds and coconut flakes on top. Freeze for 4 hours before serving. Enjoy without guilt

So, I’ve been doing this detox for some time now. It took me a while to get inspired to cook, since I have a very limited range of stuff I can eat right now, but I’m feeling it again. This morning I woke up with a craving for oatmeal pancakes…and that’s exactly what took place! And they are very light…and vegan…. and yummy 🙂

For 2 people / 6 medium pancakes

2/3 cup quick oats

2/3 cup almond milk

2 teaspoons stevia

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 pinch of salt

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Grind oats using the food processor until it almost becomes a flour,

Take the oat flour and put it in a bowl, mix in the cinnamon, baking powder, salt, and stevia Then add the almond milk and vanilla extract.

Mix well with a spoon.

Heat the pan and add a bit of coconut oil and spoon out some of the mixture, let cook until bubbles appear and pop at the surface and it will lift without falling apart. Gently flip and let thoroughly cook through about 1-2 minutes.